M-Payments Issues and Concepts

Informal Patient Payments and Bought and Brought Goods in the Western Balkans – A Scoping Review

Introduction Informal patient payments for healthcare are common in the Western Balkans, negatively affecting public health and healthcare.   Aim To identify literature from the Western Balkans on what is known about informal patient payments and bought and brought goods, to examine their effects on healthcare and to determine what actions can be taken to tackle these payments.   Methods After ...

Payments for ecosystem services and poverty reduction: concepts, issues, and empirical perspectives

Utility Theories in Cooperative Games¤

Utility theories for the de ̄nitions of cooperative games and associated solution concepts are discussed. A game with side payments needs the assumptions of transferable utility and side payments. We discuss the axioms for the transferable utility assumption and also the role of side payments for various solution concepts. We also discuss games without side payments, which do not require the ass...

علل پرداخت‌های غیررسمی در بخش سلامت از دیدگاه پزشکان، سیاست‌گذاران و بیماران: مطالعه‌ی کیفی

In recent years, the financial relationship between the physician and the patient and some issues such as informal payments for health care have arisen as an unethical but common problem in many countries, including the Islamic Republic of Iran. Such issues are a threat to the professional reputation of physicians, and can have their own causes in different parts of the world. This study attemp...

Trust in E-Cheque in Electronic Payments

Today, e-commerce has considerable portion in commercial businesses, and it has been developing. One of the most important steps in e-commerce is e-payment that has been done through different tools such as e-banking, and e-cheques. In this type of electronic transactions, there are always different worries both for payers and payees due to untruthfulness. For example, amount modifying, date mo...